On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> This is slightly urgent..
>
> Do let me know as soon as possible. man sync says nothing about where
> this interval is stored or how to reset it.
>
I think you should be looking at bdflush instead of sync.
man bdflush give me:
bdflush is used to start the kernel daemon to flush dirty buffers back to disk.
The actual dirty work is in a kernel function, and bdflush actually
forks a new process which then calls the kernel function that will
never return. . .
The two daemons are normally started in /etc/rc with one command:
/sbin/update
hth,
rahul
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